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INTERUNIVERSITY AEROSPACE CENTRE - COLLABORATION OF NIS UNIVERSITIES Knizhnikov Yu.F., Kravtsova V.I.,
At the period of fast development of satellite investigations a quite necessity in Earth sciences specialists working with satellite images have been arise. So, the Ministry of High Education had introduced new remote sensing courses at geographical faculties of universities. For rendering scientific and methodological assistance to other universities in organizing the up-to-date courses of studies on remote sensing methods of research, as well as to co-ordinate their activities in this sphere the Interuniversity Scientific and Methodological Centre for Aerospace Methods of Research and Mapping was created. It was established in 1978 by the Administration of the Moscow University under the agreement with the Ministry of Higher Education; it is based at the Laboratory of Aerospace Methods, the Department of Cartography and Geoinformatics, the Faculty of Geography.
The main activities of the Centre - training courses to improve the qualification of university teachers, which are held every 1,5 or two years; joint interuniversity research on scientific projects within the programme "Universities of Russia"; development of training manuals and visual aids for the courses on aerospace methods.
Subjects of collective training courses and teaching seminars concern with particular stages of development of the remote sensing methods of research. 6 teaching seminars organized at the base of Moscow University to the middle of 1990's were devoted to: - interpretation of multiband aerospace images; computer interpretation of aerospace images; remote sensing and geoinformatic; educational GIS;. space images in school education. 2 field teaching seminar in the Elbrus region were devoted to ground surveys at a high-mountain region and aerospace monitoring of mountain territories
Each teaching seminar was attended by teachers from 30 to 40 universities of our country. Among the participants there were mainly those teaching the courses related to aerospace methods at the natural science faculties of universities, pedagogical and other institutes, as well as specialists from organizations concerned with remote sensing. To the end of century we changed the form of training activity to distant electronical Internet-Seminars. 7 Internet Seminars took place in 2000-2005 and they are characterised in special report at this symposium.
Interuniversity research on scientific projects includes space methods of geoecology and educational geoinformation systems. The Atlas Space Methods of Geoecology was created in interuniversity cooperation.
The Center was working with prepairing of teaching sets of space images, a series of scientific methodological atlases: "Interpretation of multiband aerospace images. Techniques and results"; teaching and methodological manuals on the principles of aerospace methods and their application to geographical research.
Accomplished research of the Center - 8 collective training courses and 7 Internet-seminars, 15 manuals, 8 sets of space images and atlases. So, for 28-years activity of the Interuniversity Aerospace Centre a new generation of remote sensing specialists was bring up due to its activity.
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